![]() ![]() Sadly, as you’d probably expect from the fact that this is an action movie, the peaceful life doesn’t last long. ![]() He and Namiko are married and she’s pregnant with their child. Casey is now the Sensei of his mentor Takeda’s old dojo. Mika Hijii is back too as Namiko and, since we left them, things have gone rather well. Sho Kosugi played separate characters in his trilogy but Scott Adkins returns here as Casey Bowman, the hero from the first film. They even mirror the Cannon movies in that Ninja – like Enter The Ninja – took its cues from the Eric van Lustbader template of two students-turned-rivals warring for dominance, whereas Shadow Of A Tear – like Revenge Of The Ninja – focuses on a hero pushed to breaking point by external forces, then exploding in a shower of ninja vengeance. In fact they’re so different, it’s almost a shame they tried to tie the two stories together, rather than approaching it the way Cannon did their own ninja trilogy. While both films are arguably stronger than any other ninja movies made in the last 15 years, they’re very different in approach, so I can see why opinions would be divided. ![]() When I blogged about Isaac Florentine’s original Ninja (2009), I had a few comments both here and on Facebook about the part where I said I thought it was better than its sequel Shadow Of A Tear. ![]()
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